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former congressman martin congressman jim davis. encounter the shutdown in your day-to-day work now? guest: i do. i work with a larger partnership and not everyone is working if you are not working and the contractors are not working. paying the about employees and they will eventually get paid, although a lot of federal employees will miss paychecks. paycheck tog paycheck, that means hardships and credit problems. contractors did not get paid for these things. that means they have to carry a real them a real burden. it's going to have a very bad effect on the economy. with a national law firm. clients of the firm cannot get paperwork process whether it is dealing with fha, some other federal agency. the other thing that tom mentioned -- let's say you run a restaurant, cafÉ. arefederal work force ultimately made whole. they get their money. for weeks and weeks you have a much smaller number of people shopping at your restaurant or cafÉ. that may put you out of business. it does not do you any good if the federal worker gets their
former congressman martin congressman jim davis. encounter the shutdown in your day-to-day work now? guest: i do. i work with a larger partnership and not everyone is working if you are not working and the contractors are not working. paying the about employees and they will eventually get paid, although a lot of federal employees will miss paychecks. paycheck tog paycheck, that means hardships and credit problems. contractors did not get paid for these things. that means they have to carry a...
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jim on twitter -- guest: i suspect because it is a very low number. i don't mean that as a criticism. i think the way the program is notctured, the system does accept payment, therefore, they don't get insurance until january 1. i think what we will see is most people during the first several weeks of this and limitation are essentially windowshopping, trying to figure out what it would mean to them. i think if we didn't know that number, it would be underwhelming, simply because most people are windowshopping. host: robert on twitter -- guest: well, i think that is the sold, and ultimately to some extent, it may be true. there is a lot of pressure right now on doctors and hospitals to provide care for lower-cost. let's acknowledge on the surface, that doesn't feel like a bad name, and lesson becomes so difficult to find a medicare physician, someone who will take medicare patients, and that gets harder every year. the more pressure that is put on the system. frankly,think, hospitals more effective lobbyists than consumers on a one-on-one basis, so yo
jim on twitter -- guest: i suspect because it is a very low number. i don't mean that as a criticism. i think the way the program is notctured, the system does accept payment, therefore, they don't get insurance until january 1. i think what we will see is most people during the first several weeks of this and limitation are essentially windowshopping, trying to figure out what it would mean to them. i think if we didn't know that number, it would be underwhelming, simply because most people...
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jim is up next on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: the last caller from texas had it right. they have enough money. have a lukewarm view of the republicans. but i am so proud of them. they have stood their ground. this residence and this latest from to withhold money people who have loved ones coming home in body bags and -- this president is the president of the democrats. he is not the resident of the whole country. they have not known a cause greater than themselves. host: much has been made in newspapers of a possible split in the republican party. here is a tweet from joseph ramirez. if the gop does not stand up to the tea party, they will be toast. what do you make of that split that has been discussed in newspapers and that joseph ramirez is talking about? caller: i see a robust debate. you will have people looking at it differently. when you see a united them a credit party it is because liars do not mind being lied to. they believe in nothing but their own pocketbooks and their own agenda. when you have people decidin
jim is up next on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: the last caller from texas had it right. they have enough money. have a lukewarm view of the republicans. but i am so proud of them. they have stood their ground. this residence and this latest from to withhold money people who have loved ones coming home in body bags and -- this president is the president of the democrats. he is not the resident of the whole country. they have not known a cause greater than themselves. host:...
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sunday's coverage starts at one and includes panels on mental health, and justice in the jim crow south. the festival of books live on c- span two and -- c-span2. post your thoughts any time on our book club chat room, booktv.org/bookclub. sheefore she was first lady taught at the clarke institute for the deaf. she talked about educating the needs of the disabled. watch our program on first lady breaks coolidge -- first lady grace coolidge. >> we are at the lou henry hoover house on the campus of stanford university. this was the primary residence of the hoovers. she was the one who designed it. she had such a strong grasp of design and how she wanted a house to look, you good though she was not an architect and we are lucky to have a lot of the original drawings, documents, and correspondence of how she wanted the house to look. lou henry's influence came from her travels in the southwest the united states. it is a great legacy of lou henry's. she designed the house, she created it. it was inspired by her ideas and she had very close involvement in all aspects of the house's creation.
sunday's coverage starts at one and includes panels on mental health, and justice in the jim crow south. the festival of books live on c- span two and -- c-span2. post your thoughts any time on our book club chat room, booktv.org/bookclub. sheefore she was first lady taught at the clarke institute for the deaf. she talked about educating the needs of the disabled. watch our program on first lady breaks coolidge -- first lady grace coolidge. >> we are at the lou henry hoover house on the...
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host: go to jim next, pennsylvania, republican caller. what do you think about the current strategy? he seems to be trying to have it that you can'tg try to make a stand and now -- a stand now. his strategy seems to be to do nothing and hope for something to change in the next election. host: let's get a response. your -- you cannot the fall. that would be cataclysmic. you have to fix entitlements. in order to do that, you have to have a divided government that can agree or somebody has to win the election contest outright to prevail for the direction of the country. the country has decided we are going to have a divided and eventually they're are going to have to pick a direction to how they want to get this resolved. if they cannot compromise, it is going to have to get hammered out in the election. if you're going to have a bluff, it is embarrassing to have your bluff called. if you say we are going to plant of the state and not an inch more, you have to meet. if your bluff gets called, it does not look good. host: that is the position
host: go to jim next, pennsylvania, republican caller. what do you think about the current strategy? he seems to be trying to have it that you can'tg try to make a stand and now -- a stand now. his strategy seems to be to do nothing and hope for something to change in the next election. host: let's get a response. your -- you cannot the fall. that would be cataclysmic. you have to fix entitlements. in order to do that, you have to have a divided government that can agree or somebody has to win...
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this is from jim -- host: and then rock -- phonedavid is on the line, joining us from massachusetts. hello. good morning, thank you for taking my call. i wanted to make a couple of comments. i did send you an e-mail with a letter that i wrote to representative boehner. i support the president and the affordable care act. it has a lot of problems, but negotiation is the way to resolve those problems, not shutting down the government. we had a surplus when former president bush sent us into two unfunded wars while cutting the taxes on the wealthiest among us . republicans claim to be fiscally responsible. i am a democrat who i believe is fiscally responsible. shutting down the government is not fiscally responsible. that is one of the items here. we might want to look at the offshore tax loophole and giving corporate welfare, which costs more than a lot of the social programs combined. representative donna edwards is going to be on the program at eight: 30 this morning, she has sent out a tweet regarding what is going on -- att: again, she will join us .:30 sean, good morning, independ
this is from jim -- host: and then rock -- phonedavid is on the line, joining us from massachusetts. hello. good morning, thank you for taking my call. i wanted to make a couple of comments. i did send you an e-mail with a letter that i wrote to representative boehner. i support the president and the affordable care act. it has a lot of problems, but negotiation is the way to resolve those problems, not shutting down the government. we had a surplus when former president bush sent us into two...
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jim says tea parties turns save this country from itself to prevent us from going the way of detroit on a national level. that is it. one of the tweet this morning ramirez.ph we played you a clip of senator collins from maine, a republican. joseph ramirez writes in rob is up next from stockton, california on a line for republicans. rob, your level of confidence you heading into thursday. caller: i don't think they're going to make the connection. i think there's going to be a deal. i think what they should have underneath or on your orange wall there and back that congress is the federal debt calendar with the federal debt clock showing how much every 10 minutes and every hour our country goes into debt. people do want to realize and deal with the debt. party, andhe tea even though i'm not a member of it, is getting a black eye because they're bringing that tension to america saying look at the debt and everybody wants to run right past that. john? rob from california this morning on our line from republicans. glenys from kentucky this morning. caller: i would just like to make a com
jim says tea parties turns save this country from itself to prevent us from going the way of detroit on a national level. that is it. one of the tweet this morning ramirez.ph we played you a clip of senator collins from maine, a republican. joseph ramirez writes in rob is up next from stockton, california on a line for republicans. rob, your level of confidence you heading into thursday. caller: i don't think they're going to make the connection. i think there's going to be a deal. i think what...
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hearingtheir graves something like that after all they had to deal with in life -- slavery, years of jim crow. it made me so angry that i had to try to get in. --ther thing i want to know , the promise well that we need -- we always keep our promises. they made a promise to us 400 years ago. need to know what our history lynched,e we have been things.and all of those i could go on and on. learn the history. host: ok. kurt. texas. independent line. sayer: what i would like to is it is time to stop this shutdown. i believe the solution is simple. all of these agencies that are saying it is wrong have attorneys. those attorneys need to write a class-action lawsuit naming members of congress and the for annt, and ask immediate freeze of all of their assets until they resolve this and use that money to fund all of these furloughed employees. thank you. host: from "the wall street journal," some foreign-policy stories. this is about afghanistan. host: tampa florida -- tampa, florida, republican line. caller: this is -- is kind of a heinous thought, but could it be this administration is trying
hearingtheir graves something like that after all they had to deal with in life -- slavery, years of jim crow. it made me so angry that i had to try to get in. --ther thing i want to know , the promise well that we need -- we always keep our promises. they made a promise to us 400 years ago. need to know what our history lynched,e we have been things.and all of those i could go on and on. learn the history. host: ok. kurt. texas. independent line. sayer: what i would like to is it is time to...